Smith, Arthur H. [Editor]; British Museum <London> / Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities [Editor]: Catalogue of sculpture in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (Band 1) (London, 1892)

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CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.

735. Eelief with banquet. A male figure reclines on a conch,
before which is a table with provisions. A woman is
seated on a stool at the foot of the conch with her hand
raised to her chin.

Inscribed : ... .vov x<*Ipe.—Cyzicus. Presented by A. van
Branteghern, Esq., 1890.

Marble ; height, 10J inches ; width, 9J inches. Rev. Arch., 1891,
p. 12, No. 4.

736. Relief with banquet. Three elderly male figures recline
on a long couch, wearing diadems and holding large bowls
in their left hands. Before them is a table with two large
pomegranates and a basket of fruit. At each end of the
couch is a seated woman. The head is lost of the woman
on the left. At the left angle in low relief is a diminutive
figure of a girl, with a basket (calathos); at the right
angle is a diminutive figure of a boy, with a crater. The
relief is bounded by pilasters and an entablature. Below
is the hull of a vessel in low relief, and the metrical
epitaph of Dionysodoros, son of Pytheas.

AiovvcroSwpov tov HvOeov.
a. Atoi'TJcroSwpe, X<xipv /3. kol o~u ye, w 0iAe,
to vvv ^xL0V y]eiVojcrKe ^.e wSe Kei/xevoj/,
kolXov Kcd ayaObv kol koAojs e£ojKOTa,
A~\ijjLvayevrj yeyovora, 7ra<rt 7rpocr<£(A['j}.

—Brought from Cyzicus, in 1830,% H.M.S. Blonde. Found
in 1880 in a store at Portsmouth.

Bluish Greek marble ; height, 2 feet 5| inches ; width, 2 feet 8 inches.
C.I.G., 3684; Kaibel, 245; Welters, Bhein. Mus. N.F. 1886,
p. 346.

737. Late relief with banquet. A man and woman recline
on a couch. Before them is a table with food. The man
puts his right arm round the neck of the woman, who
appears to be holding a cup, or a wreath. On the left a
woman is seated on a stool; beneath the couch are a child